# Omnibus Evil MFers in the news thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 3, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496 "2023-05-03T11:05:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 245
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4886 "2026-10-10T18:57:24Z")
As easy as slapping on a fake label. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4887 "2026-10-12T14:44:22Z")
Re the abiding evil of pushing ivermectin and other antiparasitic drugs as cancer cures: A trend on social media, notably Twitter, is accounts purporting to be MD oncologists promoting “cancer protocols” employing IVM, fenbendazole, mebendazole etc. with allegedly wondrous results that They don’t want you to know about. Curiously, one cannot find these alleged oncology practices via online search, and accounts stating they are American are actually based in Africa or other non-U.S. locations. > **[Dr. Frederick Hamm (@Frederickhamm74) on X](https://x.com/Frederickhamm74)** > > MD | Integrative oncology > Advocate for Cancer🩺 > Trusted Vendor for IVM, MEBEN & FENBEN💊💉 > > Telegram: @frederickhamm74 > Email-hammfrederick594@gmail.com If they’re not selliing antiparasitics themselves, these accounts (which typically have very little engagement) seem designed to drive patients to drug sellers. The title of Most Evil probably goes to William Makis, [a Canadian radiologist who lost his medical license](https://cpsa.ca/news/statement-william-viliam-makis-not-licensed-to-practise-medicine-in-alberta/) and [blames Covid vaccines for “turbo cancer”](https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-william-makis-and-turbo-cancer-falsely-blaming-covid-19-vaccines-for-cancer/), now styling himself as a cancer expert, exploiting cancer patients with his unproven worm pill treatments. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4888 "2026-10-14T06:54:30Z")
DNA evidence has finally solved the cold case murder of an 8-year-old Chicago girl who was kidnapped, raped, and murdered while walking 3 1/2 blocks on her way to Mass in 1960. The killer (who died in 2006) was a Chicago PD patrol officer who later became a homicide detective. > **[Closing a 65-year-old cold case, CPD says 8-year-old girl was brutally...](https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/11/65-year-old-cold-case/)** > > It was a crime that shocked the city and stayed a mystery for decades, but now police say they have solved the killing of Gloria Kowalewicz using DNA technology. And the perpetrator, they say, was a young man who wore a CPD star. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4889 "2026-10-14T15:47:00Z")
The latest wrinkle in the phenomenon of Twitter accounts purporting to be oncologists and pushing worm pills for cancer, is accounts impersonating real-life cancer specialists, one of whom (at Indiana University) reportedly has urged Twitter to delete the fake account, to no avail. Report these accounts online, and you get a message saying that “X’s automated systems” have not detected any violation. The platform encourages evil behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4890 "2026-10-14T15:59:07Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The platform encourages evil behavior. The “free speech means evil speech” platform. :sad: ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4891 "2026-10-14T16:20:12Z")
Just wait 'til they actually get good at it. We’re in the toddler stage now. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4892 "2026-10-14T19:08:13Z")
This could make it harder for her to land a good post-doc job. > **[Wyoming grad student allegedly poisoned her colleague, tried to flee U.S.:...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wyoming-grad-student-poisoned-colleague-arrested-fleeing-us/)** > > Aili Wang, 32, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport, where prosecutors allege she sought to return to China. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4893 "2026-10-15T00:16:26Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The latest wrinkle in the phenomenon of Twitter accounts purporting to be oncologists and pushing worm pills for cancer, is accounts impersonating real-life cancer specialists, one of whom (at Indiana University) reportedly has urged Twitter to delete the fake account, to no avail. Would that be covered under any identity theft laws? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4894 "2026-10-15T00:29:03Z")
Just looking very quickly, I found this, from Texas [https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-33-07/](https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-33-07/) (a) A person commits an offense if the person, without obtaining the other person’s consent and with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten any person, uses the name or persona of another person to: (1) create a web page on a commercial social networking site or other Internet website; or ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4895 "2026-10-15T13:50:54Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > > [@Jackmannii](#): > > > > The latest wrinkle in the phenomenon of Twitter accounts purporting to be oncologists and pushing worm pills for cancer, is accounts impersonating real-life cancer specialists, one of whom (at Indiana University) reportedly has urged Twitter to delete the fake account, to no avail. > > Would that be covered under any identity theft laws? You’d think so. However, the matter is complicated by these identity-thieving accounts being based in India and Africa. Good luck with suing Twitter over enabling such accounts.\* A well-known oncologist in Oregon was similarly targeted. [https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2026/06/scammers-hijacked-the-identity-of-a-famous-oregon-cancer-doctor-to-pitch-ivermectin-online.html](https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2026/06/scammers-hijacked-the-identity-of-a-famous-oregon-cancer-doctor-to-pitch-ivermectin-online.html) Fake X account: > **[Dr. Salman, MD, PhD (@Drsalmanhuda) on X](https://x.com/Drsalmanhuda)** > > Director, Brown Center for Immunotherapy > Professor of Immunotherapy & Medicine > consultation:📧Drhudasalman@hotmail.com > Program Leader - Leukemia/breast cancer \*the fake account impersonating the Indiana cancer specialist was briefly taken down, then reinstated. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4896 "2026-10-15T15:31:17Z")
The only safe thing is to assume every “expert” on Twitter is fake. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4897 "2026-10-15T15:49:33Z")
And the cancer-grifters also make a point of looking out for any account relating family cancer histories, to piggyback on it. Of course, bonus if it’s a celebrity: saw that happen on William Shatner’s X, who for the cherry on top also mentioned how alternative treatments did not help Scott Adams so that further baited the other dudes. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4898 "2026-10-15T16:21:42Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > You’d think so. However, the matter is complicated by these identity-thieving accounts being based in India and Africa. Good luck with suing Twitter over enabling such accounts.\* The fakers themselves are overseas, but X has a large presence in the US. And by not taking down those accounts, they’re participating in the identity theft. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4899 "2026-10-15T17:14:20Z")
Effective law enforcement against corporate tycoon crimes. What a novel idea. Perhaps we should invent some, since we sure don’t have it. Not meaning to be sarcastic towards you, just towards the situation you rightly point out. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4900 "2026-10-15T23:54:56Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > The only safe thing is to assume every “expert” on Twitter is fake. When self-identifying as “truth-tellers” or “critical thinkers” and/or they’re selling something, the odds of their being fake experts and grifters are overwhelming. Another safe bet: any post prefaced by 💥💥💥 BOOM! 🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING!!! 🔥🔥🔥 will turn out to be bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4901 "2026-10-15T23:56:01Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Another safe bet: any post prefaced by 💥💥💥 BOOM! 🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING!!! 🔥🔥🔥 will turn out to be bullshit. Absolutely 100%. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4902 "2026-10-16T00:34:36Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Another safe bet: any post prefaced by 💥💥💥 BOOM! 🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING!!! 🔥🔥🔥 will turn out to be bullshit. 🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: LOCAL AREA MOM DISCOVERS FIVE NEW TIPS FOR AVOIDING SPAM ON TWITTER 🚨🚨🚨 🔥 🔥 🔥 SPAMMERS HATE HER!🚁 🚁 🚁 💦 💦 💦 NUMBER FOUR WILL SHOCK YOU! ⚡ ⚡ ⚡ [Insert unrelated photo of scantily clad woman with a surprised expression] ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4903 "2026-10-16T02:08:17Z")
Those tropes are so old and worn out, it’s even more insulting that they expect anyone to still fall for them. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4904 "2026-10-16T02:48:32Z")
Don’t you want to know the identity of that one food neurologists are begging you to stop eating, to avoid dementia? ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/4905 "2026-10-16T03:21:54Z")
Is everyone else getting the creepy AI images of elderly people sitting in hospital beds, but dressed in full military uniform? Presumably they didn’t know that ALZHEIMER’S STARTS WHEN YOU CAN’T SAY THESE 3 WORDS, SAY MDS. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=244) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=246)